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Cosmodromes on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan trembled with the thunder of departing rockets last week. An unmanned space vehicle named Salyut (Salute) roared off its launch pad and was sent into a near-earth orbit. It was followed four days later by a three-man crew in Soyuz (Union) 10. As many as three additional Soyuz ships were reported poised to join the others in orbit. Ten years after Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight, the Soviet Union had seemingly begun its most ambitious venture into space: a long-expected attempt to assemble a manned station hi earth orbit...
...When he flew Soyuz 3 in 1968, Russian Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy, also 47, was 3½ months older than Shepard...
Last week, as Soyuz 9 completed its 220th swing around the earth, Cosmo nauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov broke the endurance mark for space travel set in 1965 by As tronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman aboard Gemini 7 (13 days...
Nikolayev and Sevastyanov seemed little handicapped by the problem. From about 150 miles above the earth, they took an optical fix on Lake Viedma, high in the Andes of southern Argentina. Ground trackers performed equally well. Using new radio navigational gear, they were able to track Soyuz to within about a yard of its actual path. Indeed, the flight went so well that the cosmonauts took time out from their 16-hour work days-exercises, photographic experiments, spacecraft check-outs -to battle ground crews in a longdistance chess match (which ended in a draw on the 36th move...
...more Saturn 5s for space stations. But ultimately only space shuttles offer a really economical method of provisioning and rotating the crews of larger stations such as the twelve-man orbiting laboratory planned for the late 1970s. The Russians, who may well be testing space-station systems on the Soyuz 9 two-man mission (which at week's end had completed its twelfth day in space), are also expected to service their stations with shuttles...